NITI Aayog
5 inspirational women from Gujarat win NITI Aayog’s Fifth Edition of Women Transforming India Awards
75 Women honoured in the 75th year of India’s Independence
Women have consistently been playing a key role in transforming India into a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’. In recognition of the remarkable achievements of these women across diverse sectors NITI Aayog has instituted Women Transforming India Awards.
This year, as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate 75 years of India’s independence, the WTI Awards were conferred on 75 women achievers. Of these 75 Awardees 5 women from the state of Gujarat were honoured. Click here to know more about the other awardees.
- Priti Patel, Rajkot, Raspian Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Ms Priti Patel is the Chairperson and Managing Director for a Women Centric Defence Manufacturing Company. Raspian Enterprises was established to manufacture state of the art Small Arms Weapon Systems and Security & Defence Products. It caters to the Indian and Global defence requirements which are unrivalled in reliability, quality and cost efficiency.
She heads a team of experts who work on continuous R&D for product improvements, mainly focused on indigenization of latest technologies. She envisions women of India to participate actively in the Defence and the Security sector.
Raspian Enterprises contributes substantially to making India a self-reliant country in arms and armament for women.
- Trupti Jain, Ahmedabad, Naireeta Services Pvt. Ltd.
Trupti Jain has a distinguished career of working with Non-profits, institutions promoted by the State Government . Her social enterprise Naireeta Services Pvt. Ltd.  is creating gender centric climate change mitigating processes for inclusive development of urban and rural poor women. NSPL is promoting ‘Bhungroo’, a world bank awarded water irrigation technology. She is pursuing Zero Hunger, No Poverty, Gender Equality and Climate Action through Women Climate Leaders for ultra-poor women smallholders across India, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Africa.
Naireeta Services is resurrecting Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of Antodaya, serving the last person in the queue in the best possible ways.
- Geeta Solanki, Ahmedabad, Unipads India Pvt. Ltd.
Unipads, founded by Geeta Solanki, is a social business established with a vision to provide affordable and hygienic menstrual health solutions to women. Unipads engages them in manufacturing cost effective reusable/washable cloth sanitary pads and making these available in remote areas. Their manufacturing allows them to reduce the costs by almost 50% over standard disposable pads with its lifecycle of 1 year. Direct customer availability
is made by empanelling Women Village Level Entrepreneurs  known as Kalyanis. Currently they work with 96+ Kalyanis across their network.
Unipads ensures women have access to affordable and hygienic menstrual products and supporting livelihoods by engaging women level entrepreneurs.
- Dr. Hina Shah, Ahmedabad, International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development 
With a firm belief that economic empowerment is a powerful tool, Hina Shah began working on this idea in the year 1983, keeping in mind how sociocultural, political, physical and religious fields have a direct impact on the lives of women. The first programme, termed as Entrepreneurship Development programme for women, started with only 25 women of Gujarat, whose businesses are still doing well. This clearly demonstrated the sustainability of
the development approach for achieving women’s economic empowerment. In 1986, she also started The International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development . Hina’s relentless efforts to change the face of the deprived, dependent women of rural and tribal India has created a noteworthy impact. The women improved their status as they began their little businesses, started earning, and making profits for a sustainable and independent living. Hina Shah considers this as a tribute to the humanity and wants to do much more.
ICECD is building an “Entrepreneurial Society”, by facilitating access / control of women on productive resources leading to social and economic empowerment.
- Puunam G Kaushik, Ahmedabad, Meteoric Biopharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.
Meteoric Biopharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. is a leading, integrated and well diversified Biotech Company. Puunam G Kaushik, Deputy Managing Director works towards pursuing an ambitious goal of introducing specialized biopharmaceutical products & biotech solutions to meet the demands of a quality conscious market. They continuously work towards introducing novel ingredients and formulations in the Biopharmaceuticals market by innovative research techniques and finest service & quality standards backed by strong technical support.
Meteoric Biopharmaceuticals is carving its niche through a commitment to quality & novel technical support.